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Chronic Conditions Recovery

Chronic pain greatly impacts quality of life, state of mental health, and our ability to work and perform daily functions.

As I research ways to handle my own chronic symptoms and strive to help others do the same,  here are some resources I have found that you may find helpful.

Dr. Schubiner, MD

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Has been researching chronic pain for decades and his most recent book Unlearn Your Pain is a resource I continually reference. It contains an abundance of patient experiences who have suffered for years from pain that traveled throughout the body and never found relief, despite years of testing and medical intervention. It details research results that underpin the necessity to reexamine the relationship we have to fear, pain, and damage in the body. He explains how countless fMRI scans, and pain measuring processes, expose our over-active nervous systems as the root cause for chronic pain signals in the brain. Those who suffer from chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, IBS, POTS, and other chronic conditions, when structural damage has been eliminated, can find relief through pain reprocessing. 

Here's a link to a great podcast with Raelan Agle | Your Brain Can Keep You Sick: How to Break Free where very pointed questions about chronic pain and emotional dysregulation are followed by articulate, matter of fact,
Dr. Schubiner describes healing through EAET (Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy) based on mindfulness and having compassion and feeling safe to advocate for yourself in order to heal chronic pain, depression, and anxiety.

Alan Gordon, LCSW

In his seminal book The Way Out, Alan Gordon shares his own journey through chronic pain recovery and treating his clients through pain reprocessing. He likens the body's relationship to pain as a conditioned response based upon experience and memory, laced with fear, that triggers a perception of danger when there is none.

If you are a chronic pain sufferer,  you need to read this book. It's enlightening and he uses examples and anecdotes that are validating and reassuring there is hope to end the cycle of chronic pain.

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